Useful Reading for the CELTA

**Success on Your Certificate Course in English Language Teaching a Guide to Becoming a Teacher in ELT/TESOL** by Caroline Brandt. A free PDF download of a very useful book which takes you through all the stages in deciding which course is suitable for you, whether you are suited to teaching and, once you have decided, how to help yourself during any course you have decided to follow.
Road to Teaching - A guide to Teacher training, Student teaching and finding a job a useful book available only for online reading from Scribd.

All the books suggested on the previous page will be of great assistance during your course as well


The TKT Course - you can read most of it on Google Books by clicking here


Some more useful books - you don't have to buy them all - one good methodology book and a couple of grammars - Aitken definitely useful















Blogroll
More and more blogs have posts dedicated to the CELTA - we hope to create a list of such blogs below - do leave a comment if you know of one and it will be added

• The Cambridge CELTA Blog

Here are some useful blog posts and articles to help you while you are following your CELTA course.

Blog Posts by Marisa Constantinides (wiki creator)

• Animating Stories Ideas and techniques for storytelling and integrating technology in skills focused lessons
• What about your concept questions? The famous CCQ’s How to create good concept questions for grammar and vocabulary
• Words from Context: of Logic & Connections Helping your learners deduce the meaning of words from their surrounding context by understanding logical relations in text
• Embedding Creating Thinking Skills Training into our EFL Practice – how to include creating activities in your lessons and what each one does
• Animating your Coursebook How to exploit and adapt coursebook materials to make them come alive
• Storming out or Norming in? the importance of team building in your classes
• Don’t forget the Pedagogy in case you think technology is just fine without the methodology principles you are learning/about to learn on your CELTA course